we forget after a while that they aren’t the horizon, that their trees don’t go on forever, that the sky is wider than we can know.
Category: sky
Four months away
even the full moon isn’t
where I left it
Purely cosmetic.
You don’t actually have to be able to see at all!
It was only when I switched to unlined paper
that the poems began to come without being called.
Resolution
I must never forget how exhilarating it felt to find myself briefly at the head of a mob.
Blue blood
belongs only to those with no need for veins, like a wanderlust that starts where the highway ends.
Neurons take a dendritic form
to maximize their receptivity to the lightning of thought.
shadblow
blossoms lost to the heat
in just four days
after months of snow
the rust on the drainage grate
is in full spring bloom
vernal pool
leafy muck visible
through each reflected trunk
